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| 4 | ''Illusive Tracks'' (original: Skenbart – en film om tåg; German: Verschwörung im Berlin-Express) is a Swedish comedy/thriller from 2003. On Christmas 1945, shortly after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWar2, the idealist Gunnar decides to quit his job as a lector at a publishing house to leave for Berlin and help with rebuilding the city. So he takes the train from Stockholm to Berlin, together with several... eccentric people, and a Catholic guy who wants to kill his wife so he can marry his mistress. HilarityEnsues. |
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| 6 | !!Examples: |
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| 8 | %%* BlackComedy |
| 9 | %%* CampGay: "Pompe". |
| 10 | %%* ComedicSociopathy: |
| 11 | %%* TheComicallySerious: The conductor. |
| 12 | %%* CreatorCameo: As the stern conductor. |
| 13 | * EvilStoleMyFaith: One of the nuns, after Gunnar wreaks havoc and hurts several people, including her. |
| 14 | * ItWillNeverCatchOn: The protagonist thinks that Creator/AstridLindgren's ''Literature/PippiLongstocking'' would be more successful if it was solely about Thomas and Annika. |
| 15 | %%* TheKlutz: Our protagonist |
| 16 | %%* LipstickLesbian: Marie and Karin |
| 17 | * ThePollyanna: The soldier who doesn't seem to mind that he's mutilated repeatedly and set on flame by Gunnar. |
| 18 | * SantaClaus: One man is playing him. [[spoiler:Later, he gets knocked out by the killer wannabe, who needs his costume.]] |
| 19 | * StraightGay: Sixten claims he only sleeps with men because he hates women. [[SarcasmMode He's really a nice guy.]] |
| 20 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: Many. Gunnar gave the chocolate and oranges to the Baltic refugees because of pity. Unfortunately he didn't know / consider that you shouldn't give rich food to starved people. |
| 21 | * WhereAreTheyNow: The protagonist is still a prisoner in UsefulNotes/EastGermany in 1961, having to help them building the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall. (Maybe that's the reason it only lasted 28 years.) |
| 22 | * WideEyedIdealist: Gunnar. Unfortunately the story is a BlackComedy. |
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